About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: writing originality theft plagiarism judgment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: politics opinion perception outlook conservative Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don’t really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. —Angela N. Blount in Once Upon A Road Trip More about this quote Tags: love romance attraction control physicality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
His lying is not contingent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your fault. Lying is his choice and his problem, and if he makes that choice with you, he will make it with any other woman he’s with. —Susan Forward in When Your Lover Is a Liar More about this quote Tags: relationships lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be who you are and be that well. —Francis de Sales More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love alone could waken love. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. —Hesketh Pearson More about this quote Tags: accuracy quotations misquotations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. —Alvin Toffler More about this quote Tags: errors corrections editing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: silence poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything I do with you feels like an adventure. —Steph Campbell in Depths More about this quote Tags: relationships adventure excitement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you. —Jessi Kirby in Golden More about this quote Tags: memory knowledge experience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: ignorance character vanity price arrogance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. —Daniel Webster More about this quote Tags: reality knowledge appearance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: certainty reasoning rationality absolutes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. —Bill Vaughan More about this quote Tags: humor bugs picnics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email